Terry M.

I'm still yet to understand why electric basses that need amplification are judged acoustically. I'm always willing to learn however so what exactly am I missing with this? If the amplified sound is good isn't that the point?

Do you remember Rock-a-Cha that was upstairs in Kensington Market on High St Ken?

I remember American Classics on the Kings Road very well. Just up from The Garage,an indoor market that always had a classic American car parked in the forecourt.

Back when I played 4s I had the Squier version in the buttercream finish and black pickguard. Loved it. I have one eye looking out to see if any manufacturer dares to build a 5 string version 😁 Yours looks great.

Absolutely love this band 🥰

I'm a collector of vintage clothing and I went crazy during this period ordering stuff from the states via Ebay. Good times 😁

Wow that's quite the markup from £6k 🫢

There's some gear owned by the late John Giblin (who I'm not familiar with) for sale at the Bass Gallery. Included is a Lakland Skyline 55-02 for £3k and a 5 string Mexican jazz bass for almost £2k. Like the OP I may be missing something there.

We live in a very strange world.

David Starkey. Isn't he a known racist?

I heard Pino didn't actually want The Who gig so he quoted them a ridiculously high rate thinking they would look elsewhere. They accepted 😂 Massive D'Angelo and Pino fan here. The Who isn't for me but it's all good.

I agree with you. My used Player Plus Jazz V I got already had been retrofitted with a Sadowsky onboard circuit. A huge reason why I bought it.

So they CAN do it. Why stop there I wonder...

Surely it can't be that hard for Fender to design a tone control that works in both active and passive modes. Unless they literally can't see the point in doing so. I'm not saying it's an ABSOLUTE must but it does expand the tonal pallette somewhat. Sire managed it from the get-go so...

How would you define tonal aggressiveness? I ask because I used to have an L2000 and it was the most aggressive sounding bass I ever owned to date. I hear the Lakland LH3 system as anything but aggressive funnily enough.

I was also wondering about this. How is talking about modifying a brand new bass effective marketing? Made little if any sense to me. I've never been more grateful for the 2nd hand market. Fender are charging quite a lot of money for that passive tone circuit.

Did you search Ebay like I suggested? It's still there.

There's a 5 string on Ebay right now and the bidding is sub £400. Sunburst with maple fretboard. UK seller.

To me the Sire preamp frequencies are extremely exaggerated and false sounding toward the upper end. The bass cranked introduces boom.The upper end of the treble sweep sounds harsh. It's a good sounding preamp when under control. The Sadowsky preamp doesn't suffer from this. I've had several Sires in the past. Just my long-winded way of agreeing with you 😆

They've gone from a 12" radius on the Player Plus models to 9.5" on these which will save them some money on production as it's now shared with other models. The Player Plus already had the rolled fingerboard edges so from what I can see it's just the passive tone control that's new (and the aforementioned radius). I only recently acquired a used Player Plus Jazz V with a modified Sadowsky onboard pre and it's not going anywhere in favour of this new one. Flatter fretboard radius has always been a plus to me for added playability. Oh and the Player Plus V Jazz has my preferred 19mm string spacing as standard. No thanks Fender I'm good for now.

That's me and expensive brands like Fodera,Alembic,Ken Smith etc. Have you never tried a Sadowsky out of curiosity? Actually I put them in the expensive category,the USA ones anyway 🤣

I'm pretty sure there are few basses he hasn't gotten his hands on at some point but was he ever endorsed by Sadowsky? Tal Wilkenfield,Verdine White,Will Lee (for example) were/are.